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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover, xiii + 255pp, index, NOT ex-library. Weight: 0.57kg / 1.24lb. A fine copy with clean and bright interior, firm binding, unmarked text; free of stamps and inscriptions. Dust jacket shows gentle creasing along the edges. --- This book provides a complete approach to the economics of financing medicines and policy implications for the efficiency and equity of health systems. In all health systems with majority public financing, pharmaceutical reimbursement is one of the key factors in policies of change and transformation of health services in order to face the future with guarantees of financial sustainability. The initial chapters seek to answer questions about the efficiency with which the public sector intervenes in the pharmaceutical industry: Is the present system of drug patents efficient and fair? What would be the best way to control drug prices? Is it possible to encourage competition in this market for the patient's benefit? The remainder of the book provides evidence on the impact of instruments and policies aimed at rationalising and controlling pharmaceutical expenditure: What can we expect from the application of reference pricing systems? When, how and where should the user be made to share the cost of medicines? What economic and non-economic incentives should be applied to drug prescription? -- Contents: 1. Introduction: Public Pharmaceutical Expenditure / Jaume Puig-Junoy; -- Part I -- 2. Incentives for Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Market / P. Ibern Regàs; 3. Price Regulation Systems in the Pharmaceutical Market / Jaume Puig-Junoy; 4. Regulation and Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets / Joan Ramon Borrell Arqué; 5. Mechanisms to Encourage Price Competition in the Pharmaceutical Market and their Effects on Efficiency and Welfare / J. Rovira Forns; -- Part II -- 6. Reference Pricing as a Pharmaceutical Reimbursement Mechanism / Guillem López Casasnovas; 7. Insurance in Public Financing of Pharmaceuticals / Beatriz González López-Valcárcel; 8. Economic Evaluation and Pharmaceutical Policy / José Luis Pinto Prades; 9. Prescriber Incentives / L. Cabiedes and V. Ortún; -- Part III -- 10. Economic Considerations Regarding Pharmaceutical Expenditure in Spain and its Financing / Guillem López Casasnovas; 11. Review of Economic Studies of the Pharmaceutical Industry Published Over the Last 20 Years by Spanish Economists / F. Lobo; Appendix: List of Economic Studies of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Pharmaceuticals Published Over the Last 20 Years by Spanish Economists; Index.…